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Originally Posted by kach22i

One celebrity workout routine I read about had the actor waking up in the middle of the night to have a protein snack. I thought this was very over the top, apparently he didn't want his body to ever go into fasting mode.

Which is silly. There have been studies done that proved that during fasting you don't lose muscle or bone, you lose fat. When you fast, your body starts making more HGH which actually can cause you to build muscle.

That makes sense, right. In the days before refrigerators and microwave food, if you had a lean week of hunting and gathering during the winter, and you were losing muscle mass, how would you have the strength to go hunt and gather. Humans would have died out a long time ago if fasting caused your body to start eating muscle.